The PADI Enriched Air Diver course is PADI’s most popular specialty scuba diving course, and it’s easy to see why.

Our next Nitrox course will be Wednesday 07 July from 6pm.
Give us a call or come in to reserve your place.

Scuba diving with Enriched Air Nitrox gives you more no decompression dive time.

This means more time underwater, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

What You Learn

• Techniques for getting more dive time by using enriched air nitrox
• Enriched air scuba diving equipment considerations
• Enriched air considerations, including managing oxygen exposure, how to tell what’s in your scuba tank and how to set your dive computer 
  

Prerequisites

To enroll in the PADI Enriched Air Diver course, you must;

• Be 15 years or older
• Have a PADI Open Water Diver certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)

The Learning Materials You Need

The Enriched Air Diver crewpak includes all required materials to complete PADI’s Enriched Air Diver specialty.

The Enriched Air Diver Manual covers the procedures for diving with Enriched Air (up to 40%).

The Fun Part
You can typically stay down longer and get back the water sooner.
No wonder many divers choose this as their very first specialty.

With advances in technology, it is now possible to have your dive cylinders filled with enriched air here at Global Dive.

——————————————

Enriched Air Nitrox Course Timetable

:  Please check our Training and Events Schedule for the latest course times and costs.

Related Pages

• Global Dive Training Events
• PADI Rescue Diver
• PADI Divemaster
• Poor Knights July Liveaboard

The Fun Part

Breathe easy—knowing that you know how to recognize illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen. Being the best buddy you can be means being prepared – especially in a time of need.
What You Learn

You learn how to

* Recognize diving illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen
* Properly setup equipment
* Administer emergency oxygen

The Scuba Gear You Use

Scuba gear is not necessary to take this course.

The Learning Materials You Need

The PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Manual is an important component of PADI’s Emergency Oxygen training program. Before class, you’ll review a step-by-step explanation of when and how to provide emergency oxygen.

You’ll also learn about safety considerations, and how to assemble and disassemble emergency oxygen equipment.

The care-at-a-glance card is a quick reference guide to pack in your gear bag and review in case of an emergency.
To purchase this product, contact us.

Prerequisites

Though suited for divers, this course has no prerequisites and doesn’t include dives, which means it is equally applicable to those who are around divers – boat crew, non-diving buddies, lifeguards, and shore staff. You don’t need any previous CPR or first aid training to take the course.

Your Next Adventure

The Emergency First Response certification, which covers CPR and first aid, pairs perfectly with the Emergency Oxygen Provider course.

You’ll also want to be sure to complete your Rescue Diver and Master Scuba Diver rating to be the best prepared dive buddy around.

Related Pages

• PADI Rescue Diver
• Global Dive Training Events
• PADI Divemaster
• PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)

PADI Self Reliant Diver is one of the Tech Dive NZ Essential classes. An essential class will benefit all divers irrespective of whether they intend to undertake further technical diving traiing.

More information can be found in the Self Reliant Diver course outline – http://www.techdivenz.com/pdfs/courses/srd.pdf

Course timetable

Self Reliant Diver training in the Olympic Pool, Newmarket

Related Pages

• PADI Distinct Specialty – Self Reliant Diver

We are offering this course in conjunction with Tech Dive NZ.

Two of our Instructors, Colin and Tara, have completed this course and one of our Divemasters, Leigh, is in the process of completing his course.

We are more than happy to give you our thoughts – and they are all good thoughts too.

When the buddy system works, it works well… but many divers are often left in precarious situations by a bad diving partner!

The purpose of the Self Reliant Diver programme is to not only provide exposure to the skills needed to extricate oneself from such a situation and to emphasise the importance of proper dive planning as a means to avoid such situations in the first instance.

What You Learn

The course will cover a number of academic topics, including incident analysis, diving philosophies, equipment for self-reliance, gas management and dive planning. In addition, practical skills include the use and management of redundant scuba equipment as well as improving situational awareness and buoyancy skills.

Prerequisites

To enrol in the course, you must be 18 years old and be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent), and successfully pass a skills assessment to determine your level of comfort and competence.

The Fun Part

Nothing beats the feeling of diving in a unified team, where each diver is not only competent in the their own diving skills but also takes a shared responsibility for the whole team.
This course will help you feel much more comfortable in the water and give you the confidence to extend your diving to ensure that you get the most out of every dive.

The Learning Materials You Need

None.
The academic aspects of this course will be covered in a classroom session, and then practical skills introduced in the pool before going to open water.
However, you will need additional equipment – a spare mask, a surface marker buoy and an appropriate self-contained gas supply.

If you are interested in this course but do not have all the equipment yet, come in and have a chat to us at Global Dive.

Related Pages

• PADI Rescue Diver
• PADI Divemaster
• PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
• Poor Knights July Liveaboard

The PADI Dry Suit Diver course

Would you like to stay warm and toasty on a dive?   Yes!!!
Then dive dry. Yes!
Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water and that keeps you warm!  Even in surprisingly cold water.

What You Learn
Gain the knowledge and skills to safely dive with and take care of your dry-suit.
Get introduced to the different types of suits so you can make a very informed decision when considering purchasing a dry suit.

Dry Suit divers know the way to dive! / Photograph by Andrew Simpson

• Dry suit buoyancy control skills
• Dry suit maintenance, storage and basic repair
• Undergarment options

Practical skills you’ll master in this course:

• Dry Suit Familiarization
• Safety Checks
• Entry Techniques
• Bubble Check
• Buoyancy Check
• Descent techniques
• Fin Pivot
• Hover
• Excess gas in feet emergency roll drill
• Stuck inflator emergency drill
• Stuck exhaust valve emergency drill
• Ascent procedure – Remove and replace scuba unit and weight belt on the surface
• Exit techniques · Removal of dry suit, storage and maintenance

The Learning Materials You Will Need;

The PADI Dry Suit Diving crewpack is the owner’s guide you didn’t get with your dry suit.

Topics include:

• Basic dry suit repairs,
• How to pack a dry suit to prevent damage
• Maintenance tips

Additionally, the course materials preview skills and activities you’ll practice in the PADI Dry Suit Specialty course including

• Handling and avoiding potential problems
• Buoyancy control.

Prerequisites

• A PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver (or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization)
• At least 12 years old

The Fun Part

Dry suits let you dive more challenging dive sites, and extend your dive season.
When you have the right cold water scuba diving attire, you can stand up to the elements and take advantage of the generally better visibility offered by winter months—especially at inland dive sites such as quarries, lakes, sinkholes and caves etc.

As a dry suit diver, you’re equipped to scuba dive some of the world’s incredible dive sites in the world’s cooler regions that are best enjoyed in a dry suit even in their warmer months.

Related Pages

• Dry Suit Rental
• PADI Rescue Diver
• PADI Divemaster
• PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)

Whether sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or the result of mishap, wrecks open fascinating windows to the past.

Most divers find wrecked ships, airplanes and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they’re intriguing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teeming with aquatic life.

The PADI Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving.

What You Learn

• Techniques for diving exploring shipwrecks, and how to avoid common hazards
  

  HMNZS Canterbury / Photograph by Andrew Simpson

• How to research and learn the background of your favorite wrecks
• Wreck scuba diving equipment considerations
• Considerations and techniques for entering intact wrecks
• Experience in planning, organizing and making at least four wreck dives under the supervision of your PADI Instructor

The Learning Materials You Need

Prepare for the exciting –and specialized- world of wreck diving with PADI’s Wreck Diver crewpak. Preview the skills you’ll practice during your open water dives, become familiar with wreck diving etiquette, and take in breath-taking images from wreck diving hotspots around the world.

Prerequisites

To enroll in the PADI Wreck Diver course, you must

• Be 15 years or older
• Have a PADI Adventure Diver (not yet on site map) certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)

The Fun Part

The fun part of the PADI Wreck Diver course is visiting wrecks, unlocking mysteries and starting to gain the knowledge and experience that allows you to see things that others overlook.

Sometimes, only the trained, experienced eye recognizes that a small hole or open door likely caused the vessel’s demise.

Take a look through the gallery below at some of the photographs we have all taken of not only New Zealand’s shipwrecks, but many of the wrecks to be found around the world.

[View with PicLens]

Related Pages

• PADI Rescue Diver
• PADI Divemaster
• PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
• Poor Knights July Liveaboard

Just announced at DEMA show, the Sea and Sea DX-1200HD looks set to become the must have camera for 2009.

We are expecting our first shipment of cameras in the first week of December.

Sporting some fantastic specifications, Sea and Sea have again, pushed the boundaries of technology with this amazing little camera.

Andrew had a sneak preview of a pre production prototype in Australia earlier in the year and said it was simply awesome!!

Specifications include;

* 12.1MP

* 3″ widescreen LCD screen

* Flash Light Diffuser function – Effective diffuser that softly diffuses the light of the built-in flash

* Depth rated to 45m

* Capable of recording HD (high definition) videos at a size of 1280×780

* Features SEA&SEA mode, a still image mode for optimal underwater photography.

Global dive is New Zealand’s only “Sea and Sea Pro Photo centre”, with full range on display in stock, including the full range of strobes and arms.

Come and talk to us about your photographic needs.

Also come in and have a chat to us if you are interested in a Digital Underwater Photography Course.

Related Pages

• PADI Dry Suit Course
• Sea&Sea DX-2G
• April Photography Liveaboard
• Christmas Sale

This weekend, I had the opportunity to spend the weekend at the Poor Knights Islands with a great group of people – and professional Photojournalist Richard Robinson.

I was not feeling too sure of the results of my photographic efforts after flooding my camera and housing on Wednesday, but a huge thank you goes out to Stacy from Aquanaut who actually lent me a Sea&Sea 750G camera and housing (compatible with my strobe) so that I could participate in all the workshops and thus the competition. My buddy for the weekend was my fabulous friend Marcia who has an eye for angles and dives the same as I do – not very far and not very fast.

We started the weekend on Landing Bay Pinnacle. There was not lot of lift and the visibility was reasonable. We dropped down to our maximum depth and slowly headed up and around the pinnacle. I spent a lot of time photographing the base of holdfast kelp and trying to set up some shots that would look good in black and white. Towards the end of the dive, I found some lovely and bright Solitary corals which are my favourites from this dive. Eventually, we both needed a bathroom break and it became apparent that we had not even made it halfway around the pinnacle as we needed to swim 180 degrees back to the boat.

We headed up to Cleanerfish Bay which was looking calm with some nice natural light. Marcia and I decided we would head out over the boulders just to the edge of the bay. It was here that I found my Cadlina Willani. We spent a good half an hour on the edges of the boulders before deciding to turn around – it felt like we were nearly at the corner of the bay 100m away – turns out we were only 15m or so from the boat. We headed up into the back of the bay to check out the walls of the cave. Sitting on the sea bed at the entrance to the cave were some lovely fat Gem Nudibranchs (Dendrodoris denisoni).

Back on the boat, Richie was spending time with each of the photographers onboard. We had enough laptops and memory cards for him to take a look at the photographs being taken and answer questions on composition and workflow and also make recommendations on lighting. Even five minutes with Richie made the trip worthwhile.

The sun was getting low in the sky so we cruised into Middle Arch. We were going to spend the night here and some of us wanted to go for a dusk dive and some of us wanted to go for a night dive. By the time Marcia and I descended down the wall, our dusk dive turned into a night dive. We were not planning to be down long – but this quickly changed. It is so different at night! A 10m x 10m location turns into an enthralling experience. Two firebrick starfish, a large scorpionfish, Tamja verconis, yellow anemones – and my strobe battery was flat. I experimented with torch light as a focus light and also as back lighting but in the end it didnt really matter – we could dive this site again in the morning and in the mean time, I could just enjoy my postage stamp size piece of wall!!

After Marks classic (and very VERY delicious) lamb shanks, Richie set up a presentation on his photographs and talked through lighting and composition examples. He talked through the benefits of natural lighting and how to use what is available. He also talked about strobe position so the next time you are out on a dive trip and some photographer has their strobes pointed backwards or upside down or behind the viewer, they have probably done the Richie Robinson Photographic Tour.

The kettle starting boiling … the toaster perfumed the air … I looked at my dive computer – it was twenty to seven in the morning. Time to get up!! Morning dive time!!
My favourite dive of any liveaboard is the Sunday morning dive. Marcia and I hit the water before 8am and I headed straight back to the size of the wall to see if my starfish was there. Sweet – he was still hanging out. I took Suzy and Anna up into the air bubble in Bernies Cave and then let them know that Marcia and I were headed through the arch on a deeper dive. We stopped and let the longtail stingray pass and then continued down through the boulders to play ‘touch the sand’ on the other side. Marcia was quite narc’ed – we were diving on EANx34 – and we both had silly grins on our faces.
Coming back up, we let the slight movement of water and just our breathing carry us up slowly. Two giant boarfish were playing a game of tag on our right and we stopped for a few moments to enjoy their spiritedness. We got back into the arch and it was pretty empty. I went back to my starfish and set up the shots that I wanted.

Our next dive was at another of my favourite sites – Marys Wall. Pete Snookes jumped in with Marcia and I and played Wrasse wrangler. He sat on the bottom at the start of the wall and knocked rocks together so Marcia could shoot their faces. I spent time with the fans on the wall. In a previous dive there, I had taken a shot that I was pleased with but after talking with Richie, I had a new plan for lighting.

We had a group of three longtail stingrays cruising around throughout the whole dive and although I dont have a lot to write – this was the BEST dive of the whole weekend for me and I ended my dives here.

Martin Wallis - Banded Shrimp

Related Pages

• Photography Liveaboard with Richard Robinson
• Spring time at the Poor Knights Islands
• Sea and Sea DX-1200HD Camera
• Poor Knights Liveaboard – 23/24 May 2009

Firstly well done to Antoinette, Daniel and Julie for successfully completing their PADI Digital Underwater Specialty course with Andrew at the Poor Knights.

The trip was a fantastic opportunity to put into practice some of the new techniques learned on the course.

Some of the shots taken on the trip are displayed below, with a brief slide show planned for Club night on Monday 27th.

Madomado by Antoinette le Valliant

Fire on the Reef by Daniel Dewhurst

All of the photographs from the trip are available on our Facebook page

Related Pages

• Trip Report : Digital Underwater Photography Specialty – Sept 09
• Crayfish! YUM!
• Deep Diving at Cream Gardens
• Photography Liveaboard with Richard Robinson

Underwater photography is one of the most popular diving specialties, and the rise of digital underwater photography has made it easier and more fun than ever.

The PADI Digital Underwater Photographer course gets you going quickly with today modern digital equipment, whether you use a point-and-shoot snap camera or a sophisticated D-SLR like the pros.

Underwater Photographer / Photograph by Andrew Simpson

What You Learn

• How to choose the right underwater camera system for you
• The PADI SEA method for getting great shots quickly
• The three primary principles for good underwater photos

The Learning Materials You Need

Avoid the frustration of learning underwater photography through trial and error.

The PADI Digital Underwater Photography crewpak shortens the learning curve with tips and hints from the pros.

Topics covered include :

• Basic photography tips
• Strobe diagrams for a variety of effects
• Tips for eliminating backscatter
• An explanation of the various digital file formats
• How to bring back the color in your images

The crewpak includes the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Manual and submersible white balance slate.
The course materials preview skills you’ll practice with your instructor. Once the course is over, use your manual as a reference guide as you explore new environments and to evolve your skills.

To enroll in this course, contact us!

The Prerequisites for This Course

To enroll, you must

have a PADI Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)

Your Underwater Photography Adventure Dive in the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver / Adventure Diver course credits (at your instructor’s discretion) as the first dive in the PADI Underwater Photographer course.

The Fun Part

The fun part about this course is learning to capture images to share with your friends and family. It’s a great way to relive the adventures you’ve had.

Take a look through the gallery below at some recent photographs taken by the students during one of Andrew’s recent Digital Underwater Photography courses at the Poor Knights Marine Reserve.

[View with PicLens]

123456►

Related Pages

• PADI Rescue Diver
• PADI Divemaster
• PADI Enriched Air (Nitrox)
• Learn to Dive with Global Dive